Here is the responce that I got from the creator of convmv regarding the
inability of the utility to autodetect encoding types.
Didi,
Maybe you want to contact him directly if you know how he can implement some
auto detection, or otherwise improve the utility.
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Chaim Keren Tzion | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Administrator " The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dept. of Neurobiology " Tel: 972-2-658-5083
Inst. of Life Science " Cel: 972-2-54-652983
Jerusalem 91904, Israel " Fax: 972-2-658-6296
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----- Forwarded message from Bjoern JACKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 00:09:45 +0100
From: Bjoern JACKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bjoern JACKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: convmv
To: Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On 2003-12-31 at 17:14 +0200 Chaim Keren Tzion sent off:
>It was suggested that I send you this report of my experience with convmv.
>Thanks for a great tool!
>
>> I tried 'convmv' and it worked great. One point to be aware of: I had two
>> directory structures and it seems that one was in cp862 and one was in iso-
>> 8859-8. At first I ran the same command on both directories:
>> convmv -r -f cp862 -t utf8 --nfc directory1
>> That worked fine for the cp862 encoded directory but it messed up the iso-
>8859-8
>
>It means it's not that smart. I suggest you report it to the author.
>IMO, it should have done nothing.
Thanks for that feedback!
That's normal however. Smartness can only be achieved when some files
are already utf-8 encoded. Smartness does not mean that convmv has a
christal ball implemented ;-). 8-bit encodings can not be guessed,
just a human being can see if the files are converted correctly. But
that's also why convmv by defaults does *nothing* and an additional
--notest is needed to *do* somthing.
Cheers
Bjoern
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